My 9 week old has until recently been on Aptimal however this caused her to have extremely runny and HUGE poos, her stomach would gurgle and be bloated and she also has mild ezcema on her face which I've heard can be a sign of lactose intolerance. The doctors have screened her for an infection becau of her runny tum but this test came back normal but so far they haven't screened for lactose intolerance. I finally managed to get the doctor to prescribe Enfamil O Lac (lactose free) even though an intolerance hasn't been confirmed but then her stools became very hard very quickly and she began to bleed slightly when passing poo (presumably because the action of passing the stools made her bleed). So we've now changed to SMA LF (Lactose Free) but she seems to be uncomfortable when feeding on this and looks like she is constantly strainin to poo (although she did manage to poo this morning it was again quite a firm poo).
Does anyone have any suggestions or experience of other formulas? GIven we don't know she has a lactose intolerance and both my husband and I are also prone to sensitive tummies anyway I have also considered C&W Omneo Comfort, Aptimal Easy Digest and Soy but wondered if anyone had used these or had recommendations about how to handle?
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Allergies and intolerances
Formula Feeding - Runny stools then constipation. Any recommendations for formula?
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Nats79 · 06/11/2008 17:13
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